last minute work on illustrator-photoshop-illustrator....

so the longest night began pretty okay. finished the guitar sketch after struggling like anything to fix stray lines and whatever it is that took me the entire night to do.

tutor: so was it worth it?

when i was doing it? no. not really. not even after seeing the finished product.

From 2208 2nd Batch

but it did matter when my peers said they liked it. first design that they liked. man that meant that world. more than any grade. more than my lack of sleep.

From 2208 2nd Batch

I hate this work. really. just everything about it. not original, not worked over. but it did teach me sth about design, it's really about unlocking your mind. I was just fixated on drawing the stupid dunno what clef and dunno what have you.... lost track of what i was supposed to do.

that said, i'm pretty proud of that little addition at the bottom. haha dao gae. (:

thanks again to jean for her last minute adobe advice that saved my sorry un-artistic ass again.

an encore please

so i'll like to welcome you to another episode of Last Minute Work starring your's truly. Well the God of late work decided to teach me a lesson by letting me find out the hard way one very important fact. Illustrator does not = Imageready.

So yes. I've trying to find the illusive pen tool (in Imageready) for the entire day; and it turns out i was right for once. it wasn't there.

there's an encore coming up whether you want it or not, it's titled "Last minute drawing on illustrator"

Till then, as Dr. Grundy-Warr would say... Peaceful Vibes.

Updates on Assn 1

4 hours of work and thankfully some progress. I worked on the guitar idea Jean suggested (thank you sister, you're a life saver as always). Here's some initial sketches Jean helped me out with

Music Notes 1

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Ok i really gotta elaborate about Music Notes 1. Quite obviously Jean drew the "J" which you'll see in later pictures i really really really couldn't replicate. But shit happens and I'm moving on.

Guitar 1

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The quick 1 min sketch Jean did for me that would lead me to doing Guitar 2 and 3. More on that in awhile.

So I was finally on track by the 22nd (Monday) and I finally got down to some drawing in the lib. 4 hours straight and this is what came out.

Guitar 2:

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Guitar 2 was the two most satisfying thumbnails I've ever done. It's hard to explain/describe it anymore; no words will do it justice. On to the first reasonable looking full size sketch.

Guitar 3: Les Paul

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I had wanted to do a full Joseph inside of a Les Paul'ish guitar, but I can't really fit the P and H in. I intend to figure it out though. Meanwhile it's just Joe.

I took a break from Guitars and moved on to my second theme which was Musical Notes. First sketch was a more cursive version of Musical Notes 1

Musical Notes 2

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I know it looks alike la... But zoomed in you'll see the details I wanted to put into the design. Had way too much fun playing with different pencils.

My favourite design for the night. The acoustic 4-string bass.
Guitar 4: Acoustic 4-String Bass

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I had to start coloring it because i lost patience trying to show the holes were well... holes. So one thing led to another. The P and the H still gave me problems though.

Musical Notes 3

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Last bit for work for the night and it was the neatest. I didn't like the idea in the beginning but it got better and better the more I did it. I kinda dig it's assymetrism.

So that's it for this post. I'll add more comments when I've mulled over the designs.

assignment one

so we had to do one of em My name is... and I like... exercises. I did my first drafts in private and quite thankfully i did. I showed them to Jean and she quite nearly tripped over herself laughing at them. (I think the well-hung sphinx like thingy just killed her)

see exhibit A:

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and if you thought that was bad. here are my very first sketches.

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i'm not even going to bother giving a running commentary for this one. i could fell a tree just by showing it this picture; but hey, it's funny as hell and it deserves a place on the blog.

In any case, I asked her(jean) for a little advice and I think she hit it on the nail: I'm going to need to start drawing. Hopefully by the end of the sem I'll at least be drawing ugly pictures and not funny pictures.

So back to the project, I had a lot of problems:

1. Generating Ideas
2. Getting Generated Ideas on paper

I tried to overcome that by changing the "what I like" portion. That didn't seem to work as well. I was trying to think up simpler things to "like", but it just made the entire thing flipping complicated. So right now i'm trying to figure out, one of two ways to work:

1. Design with the end in mind?
2. Stick with the problem and wiggle your way out with a design.

More on episode two, revenge of the sith.

first post's the hardest

so i'm going to get it right out of the way by doing a simple post.

i'm going to do scan-ins from my sketch book into here. so i'll be able to capture all comments without risking my filling (which really tends to gets things lost rather than archived)

i'm also going to see if i can get a couple of friends (on top of prof reddy) who do quite abit of designing to perhaps comment on things my designs. after that? maybe a few more of the 2208 class. we'll see how it goes.